Meta-data management
Encyclopedia
Meta-data management involves storing information
about other information. With different types of media
being used, references to the location of the data can allow management of diverse repositories.
URL
s, images, video etc. may be referenced from a triples table of object, attribute and value.
With specific knowledge domains, the boundaries of the metadata for each must be managed, since a general ontology
is not useful to experts in one field whose language is knowledge-domain specific.
If you are in the process of making a knowledge management solution, managing the metadata is very important. In such a project, you would typically appoint a metadata manager. This is a person who will be responsible for the metadata strategy, and for the implementation of this. A metadata manager does not need to know about and be involved with everything concerning the solution, but rather, will have overall responsibility.
Managing the metadata in a knowledge management solution is an important step of a metadata strategy. It is part of the strategy to make sure that at any given point in time, the metadata are complete, current and correct. And it is about making sure that users of the solution are aware of the possibilities and how to use these possibilities. It is very important to monitor the metadata, constantly making sure that the knowledge management solution provides data that corresponds with organizational requirements.
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
about other information. With different types of media
Digital media
Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital form. It can refer to the technical aspect of storage and transmission Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital (as opposed to analog) form. It can refer to the technical aspect of...
being used, references to the location of the data can allow management of diverse repositories.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
In computing, a uniform resource locator or universal resource locator is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource....
s, images, video etc. may be referenced from a triples table of object, attribute and value.
With specific knowledge domains, the boundaries of the metadata for each must be managed, since a general ontology
Ontology
Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations...
is not useful to experts in one field whose language is knowledge-domain specific.
If you are in the process of making a knowledge management solution, managing the metadata is very important. In such a project, you would typically appoint a metadata manager. This is a person who will be responsible for the metadata strategy, and for the implementation of this. A metadata manager does not need to know about and be involved with everything concerning the solution, but rather, will have overall responsibility.
Managing the metadata in a knowledge management solution is an important step of a metadata strategy. It is part of the strategy to make sure that at any given point in time, the metadata are complete, current and correct. And it is about making sure that users of the solution are aware of the possibilities and how to use these possibilities. It is very important to monitor the metadata, constantly making sure that the knowledge management solution provides data that corresponds with organizational requirements.
See also
- MetadataMetadataThe term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
- Metadata discoveryMetadata discoveryIn metadata, metadata discovery is the process of using automated tools to discover the semantics of a data element in data sets. This process usually ends with a set of mappings between the data source elements and a centralized metadata registry....
- Metadata publishingMetadata publishingMetadata publishing is the process of making metadata data elements available to external users, both people and machines using a formal review process and a commitment to change control processes....
- Metadata registryMetadata registryA metadata registry is a central location in an organization where metadata definitions are stored and maintained in a controlled method.-Use of Metadata Registries:...
- ISO/IEC 11179ISO/IEC 11179ISO/IEC 11179 is an international standard for representing metadata for an organization in a metadata registry.- Intended purpose :...
- Dublin coreDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata terms are a set of vocabulary terms which can be used to describe resources for the purposes of discovery. The terms can be used to describe a full range of web resources: video, images, web pages etc and physical resources such as books and objects like artworks...